Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.
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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
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Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
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I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that vintage glamour look.
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If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.
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From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.
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I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.
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It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
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I think my biggest triumph as an artist has been navigating the music industry and being able to stay true to who I am and create the art that I want to make.
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What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
